Книга: Privilege (Glasfurd Guinevere); Two Roads, 2022

'I thought of the books we carried and the hands that would one day hold them. The pages read, turned and discussed. And how the book would become thought and the thought then become the person gone out into the world. Let Gilbert try and put a stop to that.'

After her father is disgraced, Delphine Vimond is cast out of her home in Rouen and flees to Paris. Into her life tumbles Chancery Smith, apprentice printer sent from London to discover the mysterious author of potentially incendiary papers marked only D. In a battle of wits with the French censor, Henri Gilbert, Delphine and Chancery set off in a frantic search for D's author. But who is D and does D even exist?

Privilege is a story of adventure and mishap set against the turmoil of mid-18th century France at odds with the absolute power of the King who is determined to suppress opposition on pain of death. At a time when books required royal privilege before they could be published - a system enforced by the Chief Censor and a network of spies - many were censored or banned, and their authors harshly punished. Books that fell foul of the system were published outside France and smuggled back in at great risk.

Costa-shortlisted author Guinevere Glasfurd has conjured a vibrant world of entitlement and danger, where the right to live and think freely could come at the highest cost.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781529342901
Автор(ы)	Glasfurd Guinevere
Вес	0.56
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2022
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Two Roads
Издательство	Two Roads
Кол-во страниц	336
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	336
Обложка	твердый переплёт, суперобложка
Оформление обложки	суперобложка
Тип обложки	твердая